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The Oxford handbook of disability history / edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen

Introduction / Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen -- Part I. Concepts and questions. The perils and promises of disability biography / Kim E. Nielsen -- Disability history and Greco ...
Disability Scoop

Disability History Museum Set To Open

A one-of-a-kind museum chronicling disability history is reopening after a five-year hiatus in a new, bigger space that’s hundreds of miles away from its previous home. The Museum of Disability ...
Washington Post

An archive honoring the voices and experiences of disabled people

How much do you know about the history of disability? If the answer is “not a lot,” you’re not alone. The voices and experiences of disabled people are often nowhere to be found in history books and ...
WBUR

These High Schoolers Are Calling For A National Disability History Museum By Making Their Own

Gann Academy students Gabe Rosen and Elianna Gerut are two of the curators of the "Disability History of the United States" exhibit at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham, ...
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Learn about the History of Disability in the Delaware Disability History and Awareness Month

In the past, people with disabilities of all ages were shut away and ignored, cast off by families and society, or ridiculed because of their differences. Thankfully that is continuing to change due ...
EurekAlert!

Osiris 39 examines the role of disability in the history of science

Disability studies has gained prominence in recent years, transforming fields ranging from design to literary studies with insurgent approaches to access and representation. The newest volume of ...
University of Delaware

Views of disability, deafness

Jaipreet Virdi was living and teaching in Canada, where she had grown up and earned her doctorate in the history of science, technology and medicine, when she found out about a job opening on the ...
Newsday

First-look: Museum of Disability History to open at Viscardi Center

Long Island is home to a series of legendary museums. From the Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor to the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale to the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, the ...
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The history of Pennhurst: From state school to disability rights landmark

When television reporter Bill Baldini walked through Pennhurst in 1968, the institution near Spring City had been operating ...

The History of the Disability Community in Second Life: 'Another Body, Another Public Sphere' Pioneered by Virtual Ability

When looking back at the history of Second Life, corporate expansion, virtual real estate, avatar culture, and user-generated ...
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Disability histories / edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis

Re-membering the past : reflections on disability histories / Susan Burch and Michael Rembis -- Part 1. Family, community, and daily life : part introduction and guiding questions. Disability, ...